[OMS_MANAGERS] Marijuana Legalization

[Brad James]

It is economically irresponsible for a City to ban the sale or production
of cannabis, because of the local tax benefits it can provide. Throwing
away beneficial tax money for a moral stance is soooo 2014.

Whether that's enough for your board to take a position is up to you.

It matters less IF you have a cannabis shop, and more about WHICH one you
have. There are generally two types:

   - Those that treat their store like a retail shop - beautiful displays,
   quality signage, building improvements, active community involvement, etc.
   - Those that treat it like it's still an illicit substance - barbed
   wire, dilapidated buildings in poorly lit areas, black windows, tacky neon
   signs, etc.

Personally, I don't think they make great ground floor businesses in
downtowns, but can be great cute second floor walk ups. McMinnville
currently prohibits them in downtown, which I'm in favor of because it
prevents them from being able to suck up valuable real estate. In districts
with higher vacancy rates, this may not be an issue.

Brad James
McMinnville Downtown Association




On Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 12:22 PM, Sarah Lu Heath <sarah at astoriadowntown.com>
wrote:

> We have two pot shops in downtown, and another 4 outside the district.
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> No discernable issues that don’t come up from regular bar traffic.
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> Sarah Lu Heath
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> Executive Director
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> Astoria Downtown Historic District Association
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> No.1-12th Street, Suite 114
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> PO Box 261
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> Astoria, OR 97103
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> 503.791.7940
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> www.AstoriaDowntown.com <http://www.astoriadowntown.com/>
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> *From:* OMS_MANAGERS <oms_managers-bounces at listsmart.osl.state.or.us> *On
> Behalf Of *Shawn Irvine
> *Sent:* Monday, August 27, 2018 9:13 AM
> *To:* Oregon Main Street program managers <oms_managers at listsmart.osl.
> state.or.us>
> *Subject:* Re: [OMS_MANAGERS] Marijuana Legalization
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> We have two dispensaries in Independence – neither downtown – plus one
> functioning grow operation and a grow/processing facility under
> construction in our industrial area.  No real problems with any of them so
> far.  Our first dispensary was located in a not great part of town and
> there were a lot of police calls to the location – but it was the owner
> calling the police for anything suspicious he saw.  He probably picked up
> the neighborhood a bit through his efforts.
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> I would agree with Dan that they are unlikely to really generate spinoff
> traffic if located in a downtown.  They also have to obscure their windows,
> which can be less than ideal in a downtown situation. Monmouth has 4 (!)
> including one downtown.  The downtown dispensary is very attractive but the
> entire storefront is frosted windows so you don’t get the interaction
> between the business and sidewalk that we prefer.  That said, ours are in
> older buildings that they fixed up pretty well so you could do worse than a
> full, attractive storefront with frosted windows.
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> The marijuana tax is not something to ignore if your community currently
> prohibits it.  Our first check from the state was around $25k, and that was
> only a portion of the first year.
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> One other note:  A cannabis shop from Salem is a sponsor of our free
> summer concert series.  It’s a bit odd to see a cannabis banner up with the
> others, but we figured that we would let a brewery/winery/distillery
> sponsor so how could we say no to a similar legal enterprise.  You never
> know how the issue is going to pop up.
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> Shawn
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> *From:* OMS_MANAGERS <oms_managers-bounces at listsmart.osl.state.or.us> *On
> Behalf Of *Darin Rutledge
> *Sent:* Monday, August 27, 2018 8:28 AM
> *To:* Oregon Main Street program managers <oms_managers at listsmart.osl.
> state.or.us>
> *Subject:* [OMS_MANAGERS] Marijuana Legalization
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> Good morning, all!
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> Here’s a fun question for you first thing Monday morning!
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> Klamath Falls (city) currently prohibits the sale/production of marijuana.
> A group has done the work to qualify a local measure for November’s ballot
> to legalize it.
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> Obviously, our board is deliberating what position, if any, we will take
> on this issue, and how we’ll approach the politics leading up to the
> election.
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> Do you have any thoughts, comments, stories, etc. related to how legalized
> sales have impacted downtown?
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> Good? Bad? Indifferent? Is the revenue generation worth any perceived
> negatives?
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> Thanks!
>
> Darin
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*Brad James*  |  Executive Director

McMinnville Downtown Association

503-883-8502 (cell)
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